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huntwoodwoolaswoolwichwoolworthsworkworkfareworkhousewrapwtowwiyatesyellowstoneyvette cooperzanuzil laneszombiezongRaedwaldA blog about politics, policy, freedom, lifestyle and some things boaty and saltishhttp://raedwald.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)Blogger3851125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-1020123947837318687Sun, 02 Aug 2015 04:52:00 +00002015-08-02T12:18:04.590+01:00calaismigrantsYou'd need a heart of stone<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">You'd need a heart of stone not to feel for Theresa May this morning. Having finished the week with arrangements for a <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11778396/Migrants-think-our-streets-are-paved-with-gold.html">joint article with her French counterpart to appear in the Sunday Telegraph</a>, carrying the clear message 'The streets of Britain are not paved with gold' she no doubt looked forward to a relaxed Sunday.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Until the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3182519/Welcome-soft-touch-UK-Outrage-immigrants-illegally-entering-UK-free-hotel-rooms-cooked-meals-35-cash-week-days-arrival.html">Mail ran its front page lead</a> on how asylum seekers are enjoying all the benefits of 4* country house hotels with spa pools, wellness centres and holistic grapefruit at the taxpayers' expense.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I think I can guess which cutting will circulate most widely in Calais. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Oh dear.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-joIwy1_O1mo/Vb2hgIVhrbI/AAAAAAAADo0/kv61stO5NlQ/s1600/asylum%2Bhotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="317" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-joIwy1_O1mo/Vb2hgIVhrbI/AAAAAAAADo0/kv61stO5NlQ/s400/asylum%2Bhotel.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">May is correct of course in that this is a Europe-wide problem; even Austria now gets asylum seekers. <a href="http://kaernten.orf.at/news/stories/2724360/">They are housed in tents</a> within the grounds of a police barracks and subject to strict discipline, disinfestation, de-parasitisation and isolation from local populations on public health grounds as well as being lectured for several hours each day on the Austrian way of life by social workers. And they don't get any cash allowance, unlike their British counterparts. Most can't wait to leave Austria ...</span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZSOSBXRs_dw/Vb2lMweftsI/AAAAAAAADpA/VdDdKOQmPwA/s1600/austrian%2Basylum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ZSOSBXRs_dw/Vb2lMweftsI/AAAAAAAADpA/VdDdKOQmPwA/s400/austrian%2Basylum.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Asylum seekers camp at Krumpendorf barracks</td></tr></tbody></table>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/08/youd-need-heart-of-stone.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-3332633524415349166Sat, 01 Aug 2015 05:32:00 +00002015-08-01T07:05:19.315+01:00cameroneuVerdict: Cameron a weak streak of pee. Good. <span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Well, I hate to say it, but I was right. I predicted Cameron would react to the Calais crisis with just a roll of fencing and some encouragement to the French. I didn't mention the extra sniffer dog or the additional 6hpw overtime for the three UK immigration officers based in Calais but what the heck. He couldn't possibly have done less if he tried.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">However, Cameron's weakness is a two edged sword. A Summer of TV footage of frightening African natives battering their way into Britain can only add significantly to the 'out' vote. Cameron's admission that 50 a day are getting through means the real total is probably closer to 200 a day, and the role of private cars in a well organised smuggling operation is becoming clearer as journos in Calais sniff the facts out. Add to that the images of burning tyres as French Corbyn supporters express their pleasure at his nomination and you have a potent mix that will keep the Mail and Express in a state of perpetual outrage.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">And of course folk are asking how 31,000 asylum seekers a year are getting here; they're not floating into the Hamble on rafts from Morocco, that's for sure. And before long groups of confused Sudanese migrants will be found wandering around Newhaven and Harwich as the problem moves to the secondary ports. And all it will take will be another ECHR case giving a Jihadist rapist asylum seeker the right to a council house or whatever and the 'out' vote will swell again.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So all in all, Cameron's weakness is actually a benefit to the 'out' campaign; imagine where we'd be with a Thatcher in Number 10 demonstrating how we could have tough borders, rational legal judgements AND remain in the EU ...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Oh. And don't mistake last night's partial respite from the assaults of the Friday people in Calais as anything other than a day of observance from primitive religionists. &nbsp; </span><br /><br />http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/08/verdict-cameron-weak-streak-of-pee-good.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-9127718355854975425Fri, 31 Jul 2015 05:58:00 +00002015-07-31T07:36:40.453+01:00crime bosseseuunPeter Sutherland - Consigliere to the Capi of the global corporates<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Peter Sutherland is <i>Consigliere</i> to the <i>Capi </i>of the global corporates. Weighing in at around 350lbs, like some giant sclerotic walrus he drags his aged bulk around the UN in New York as boss of the WTO, the organisation that works hand in hand with the EU in dismantling state boundaries and national identities to facilitate corporatism without boundaries.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /> Sutherland tried democracy once, as a young man, and didn't like it. It is the only time he is ever recorded as having stood for election. 1,969 people voted for him and he lost. After this, he decided that the way ahead lay in climbing the ladder of unelected officials; first as an EU commissioner, then an an unelected UN official. His appointment as boss of Goldman Sachs was recognition of his appointment as <i>Consigliere</i> by the global crime bosses. He has never once held elected office. <br /><br /> So when Sutherland condemns our attitude here in the UK towards the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/11773836/Britain-xenophobic-to-demand-economic-migrants-kept-out-says-UN.html">Swarm of migrants in Calais as 'xenophobic'</a> and that we should abandon our quaint notions of statehood and democracy and recognise the supremacy of the global corporates in ripping down borders and driving down factor costs for themselves and just let them in, at whatever economic and social cost to us but none to his <i>Capi</i>, you can see where he is coming from. As Mandy Rice-Davies said, he would say that, wouldn't he. </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/peter-sutherland-consigliere-to-capi-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-1864214869764681559Thu, 30 Jul 2015 05:18:00 +00002015-07-30T06:18:40.383+01:00franceCalais - Proof that the Kermits have lost it<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jmjQICx8_SQ/VbmzcxYb0aI/AAAAAAAADog/Tk_aw4pUYoc/s1600/Gendarme.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jmjQICx8_SQ/VbmzcxYb0aI/AAAAAAAADog/Tk_aw4pUYoc/s320/Gendarme.jpg" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">France's crack border force</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">If any proof were needed that the Kermits are a spent force and the <i>Gloire</i> of France is well over, Calais is it. The nation that once aspired to equal Britain now can't even control a thousand exhausted Africans. France is bankrupt, her economy is down the pan, she is being held up only by Germany and the gross peculation of EU agricultural funds on a massive scale (France has 7% of Europe's farms yet gets 40% of the CAP subsidy).&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">It is as though the entire French government has just given up, with a Gallic shrug and a hand held out for a <i>pourboire</i>. No wonder 600,000 of the beggars have moved to England (the young women in particular lending London a welcome elegance and demonstrating to the locals how to lunch in a civilised manner).&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">They may be good at cheese, ladies' handbags and fizzy wine but they can't manage themselves out of a paper bag any more. </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/calais-proof-that-kermits-have-lost-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-4131315200203205064Wed, 29 Jul 2015 11:02:00 +00002015-07-29T12:02:02.849+01:00calaiseconomic migrantsCalais - the option Cameron won't take<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">As both UKIP and UK Hauliers called for the army to be deployed at Dover to screen out illegal migrants hiding in vehicles, there are several reasons why Cameron will not take this option;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">1. OK, so they succeed in finding hundreds of migrants hidden in vehicles. What do they do with them? They can't be immediately sent back if they make an asylum claim - they need housing, feeding and care. And after a couple of weeks when the numbers are in the thousands and we need to build new detention centres, what then? No, far better, as far as Cameron is concerned, to allow those that make it into Dover to slip in quietly.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">2. And no, the French would never stand for the British army being stationed in Calais to do the screening</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">3. The army are efficient enough not only to find the migrants hiding in freight wagons, but the hundreds a day more being carried in the boots of private cars for reward; for unemployed Asian lads from the Midlands, smuggling in migrants at £1,000 a pop has become quite an earner. Well, they're not going to Calais to stock up on booze, are they? Again, exposing the known problem to public view is less preferable to Cameron than keeping it quiet letting the illegals in.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">4. Swarms of human rights lawyers / ambulance chasers will descend on Dover ready to blame the lads for every miscarriage, cut, bruise or hurt feeling and back it up with legal claims.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">5. Having our lads stop the poor migrants coming in doesn't make as good TV as rescuing the sods from the sea etc. - best avoided altogether.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">6. And having the army find large numbers who get through Calais is also bad news - news editors will back-calculate how many have already got in, and blame Cameron for a full five years' worth.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So I can confidently predict the outcome will be (a) to ask the French politely to do a bit more policing (b) to deploy the Territorial Voluntary Reserve National Barrier to join its regular cousin in Calais (c) er, that's it.</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/calais-option-cameron-wont-take.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-943861653288168505Wed, 29 Jul 2015 05:21:00 +00002015-07-29T06:21:06.125+01:00IslamterrorismBanks and Terrorists<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I remember back in the '80s, following big-bang and the expansion of the financial system, when banks were suffering from account fraud so that cashiers were provided with photocopied 'caution' lists of foreign individuals with whom the bank should not deal.&nbsp; The list was ordered alphabetically by country; a few names listed for Brazil, a few for Chile, a handful for Denmark and so on. Until, under Nigeria, the list simply said 'All'. Well, the banks had about as much success in halting the exploitation of the West's financial systems by energetic and enthusiastic Nigerians, the world's greatest fraudsters, as Canute had in halting the waves.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So I wonder how successful the listing on Thomson-Reuters 'World Check' terrorist institutions database of Finsbury Park Mosque will be. The <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/28/finsbury-park-mosque-chairman-mohammed-kozbar-banks-terrorism-world-check-list">imam of course is outraged</a> at being listed but ordinary folk may remember the Mosque as a hotbed of Islamist extremism that spawned Richard Reid and Zacarias Moussaoui, sheltered Abu Hamza and bred the London Ricin plot, and therefore think the listing is reasonable.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">And of course there are those who, until Islam in the UK reforms itself so as to conform wholly to David Cameron's check-list of unacceptable tenets of faith, who would simply avoid the discrimination issue by listing, under the heading 'Mosques and Madrassas in the UK' in the Thomson-Reuters database, 'All'. &nbsp; </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/banks-and-terrorists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-4704288770832616610Tue, 28 Jul 2015 05:22:00 +00002015-07-28T06:58:34.188+01:00politicsThe attraction of Corbyn and the UK's democratic health<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">It is a much used video clip from Iain Dale's London radio programme that best illustrates the attraction of Jeremy Corbyn. Whilst the other three candidates squirm and dissemble over Dale's question about a job for Ed Milliband, Corbyn answers honestly and clearly. At a time when we loathe everything about the political class more than ever, Corbyn is the Varoufakis of British politics; authentic, with the common touch, a man whose message you may not like but whose word you can trust.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Never underestimate the wisdom of crowds. Commentators are unanimous in opining that electing Corbyn is electoral suicide for Labour. While there is no reason to say they're wrong, it's possible that folk know it already, but have already written the Labour party off as a big league political party. Four million votes on the right have already migrated to UKIP - why should not 4m votes on the left follow a radical left wing party, leaving Blair's Labour with the LibDems in the centre?&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">We're going through a radical reconfiguration in British politics. Whatever the short-term upsets, any long-term outcome that increases party membership from its nadir of 1% of the electorate in the first decade of this century is good. The more varied, fluid and fast-moving the change in politics the less chance of tax theft by moribund decaying behemoths of parties, the less chance of a quasi-constitutional role for the old parties and the less chance of British politics becoming set in treacle. The cosy and corrupt plans of both Christopher Kelly and Hayden Phillips, both ex-Mandarins, with regard to the tax funding of parties have already been blown out of the water*. An increase in political participation, and in those paying subs, will see a swing towards the only fair and democratic method for funding political parties - by their members. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">*Implementing the Phillips / Kelly plan now would give UKIP £12m a year of tax money - not something Cameron is likely to let happen.&nbsp; </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-attraction-of-corbyn-and-uks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-9075833083391770934Mon, 27 Jul 2015 04:53:00 +00002015-07-27T05:54:45.240+01:00isisturkeyIslamic civil war pulls in NATO member<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The same incredible policy stupidity that turned Libya from a prosperous employer of African migrants to a bankrupt staging post for illegal migrants to the EU, run largely by ISIS, has just pulled Turkey into the Islamic civil war. Turkey is of course a NATO member. The map below shows the extent of the Kurdish minority, with whom the Ankara government has just gone to war. The Kurds are the main military opponents of ISIS in Syria. And among the Turkish speakers in the green areas are over a million Sh'ia.&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yJZXv1_XQoM/VbW3sG1U2zI/AAAAAAAADoM/ZiIrruHHxvM/s1600/turkey2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yJZXv1_XQoM/VbW3sG1U2zI/AAAAAAAADoM/ZiIrruHHxvM/s400/turkey2.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">A political and military collapse in Turkey will open a migrant highway straight into the heart of Europe; Greece will be abandoned (as the Germans truly want) and Europe's new boundary will be a fence running from Hungary to Slovenia to Trieste. </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/islamic-civil-war-pulls-in-nato-member.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-4994824675883389595Sun, 26 Jul 2015 12:35:00 +00002015-07-26T13:35:52.055+01:00Not all sex offenders are Muslim<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Not all sex offenders are Muslim ...</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jHVs28KWVgQ/VbTT_kvT4fI/AAAAAAAADn4/Iay5q3Z9gc8/s1600/cameronlibya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jHVs28KWVgQ/VbTT_kvT4fI/AAAAAAAADn4/Iay5q3Z9gc8/s1600/cameronlibya.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">&nbsp;</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/not-all-sex-offenders-are-muslim.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-9086409505178098635Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:19:00 +00002015-07-25T10:22:39.623+01:00child abuseIslampakistanISIS, witch-burning in 17th Century Europe and sick Aylesbury Dogs<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The horrors with which ISIS deals with apostates, homosexuals and sundry offenders against the primitive Sharia 'law' clearly have no place in the 21st century and are beyond any understanding or excusing. These Moslems are barbarian unenlightened natives, immersed in the stupidity of religious bigotry. As members of an evil death cult they have already consigned their souls to Hell.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">However, their activities are not without parallel in our own pre-enlightened past. During the Thirty Years War in Europe the phenomenon of witch-burning peaked; previously very rare, and after around 1650 rare again, but during the war period at least ten thousand women were condemned and burned alive in Europe - by both Protestant and Catholic authorities.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The First and Second Enlightenments changed everything. European men since are not the same as men before, nor churches since the same as churches before. It is specious therefore to claim, as some feminists or atheists do, that either men in general or religious men in particular are still liable to incinerate gobby, clever or independent women. Witch-burning was never an individual psychopathic activity - it was a participatory sport in which men used their pre-enlightenment understanding of their faith to justify their collective barbarity. And that phase has now long passed from European mandom.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">However, the same primitive behaviour is still apparent both amongst ISIS in Syria and Iraq and primitive men of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin, nearly all Moslem, in our own towns and cities. Their violence and sex crimes are not secretive, individual acts of delinquency but a collective, participatory sport with self-justification from their primitive and unenlightened understanding of their own faith. Sixty Moslem men raping a twelve year old girl in Aylesbury, throwing a gay youth from the roof of a building in Raqaa or sawing the heads from their terrified captives are all part of the same problem - that we are not, as enlightened Europeans, dealing with our equals but with those no different to our own ignorant, unenlightened ancestors four hundred years ago.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So no. We cannot allow Islam to be the equivalent in our society of Christianity until it has passed through the same enlightenment, undergone the same changes. Until then it is the unacceptable primitive faith of killers and abusers.&nbsp; </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9iwY9xzkWw/VbNUHKNMXDI/AAAAAAAADnk/w3xRTF4LC-g/s1600/sickpakifucks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="91" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-M9iwY9xzkWw/VbNUHKNMXDI/AAAAAAAADnk/w3xRTF4LC-g/s400/sickpakifucks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/isis-witch-burning-in-17th-century.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-6630234378943120277Fri, 24 Jul 2015 04:50:00 +00002015-07-24T07:23:24.500+01:00euUSAUS wants Britain in the EU for their benefit, not ours<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">There is something admirably straightforward about the way in which the US always, always, acts in the interests of the US. No sentimental nonsense about moral obligations, bonds of friendship and so on; the US will shaft (and has done, on several occasions) its closest ally if there is an advantage to the US to be taken from it. Let's not be upset or bitter about it. It's the way it is, and as I suggest, an approach we should emulate.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">There will be those this morning ignorant of the above principle, who will fondly imagine that <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/11759796/Barack-Obama-says-Britain-must-stay-in-EU.html">Obama's urging the UK to remain in the EU</a> is altruistic advice given for the benefit of the UK. Get real, folks. The US has absolutely no interest whatsoever in maintaining Britain's diminished world position. Entirely the opposite, in fact.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The US would rather have us propping up a militarily weak Europe to allow the US, in time, to withdraw from NATO obligations. The US would rather lose the anomaly of Britain and France each having a seat at the Security Council when it would rather that one of those seats went to South America.&nbsp; The US would rather have the EU's emollient and accommodating majority force Britain to give up inconvenient thorns such as the Falklands. The US would rather have the Euro nuclear capability under one finger - that of the senior EU official. And no doubt a score of other reasons.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So we must thank Mr Obama for his advice, and politely remind him that the UK generally makes up its own mind on such matters. Generally about three years before the US president does.</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/us-wants-britain-in-eu-for-their.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-4337407654072213628Wed, 22 Jul 2015 12:17:00 +00002015-07-22T13:17:46.905+01:00BlairfailurewhimsyBloody Butcher tells Labour to lie more<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The Bloody Butcher of Baghdad emerged from his crypt today to warn Labour that unless they learn to lie properly to the electorate they won't win power. Blair pointed to his own record of mendacity, deception, distortion and omission as an example of how to succeed in gulling the voters.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">"Just look what we achieved" Blair said "We destroyed the last vestige of rebellion and free-thinking among&nbsp; the remnants of the English working class, closed half the county's pubs to limit sedition, robbed traditional community identity of its strength by dilution and had nearly half the population financially dependant on the State. Until Gordon tried to be clever and wrecked the bloody economy. You don't get there by not being able to lie effectively"</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Commentators speculated that Bloody Blair is running scared of Labour picking a leader who won't protect him from prosecution once the Chilcot inquiry is published - now expected sometime in 2021, just after the next election. &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I7n4lsg_F-w/Va-JTlWrqJI/AAAAAAAADnM/q44C-WQDhm4/s1600/blairchair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="316" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-I7n4lsg_F-w/Va-JTlWrqJI/AAAAAAAADnM/q44C-WQDhm4/s400/blairchair.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hCHp-9ykWFY/Va-JlBjtUoI/AAAAAAAADnQ/QUWJxlksZN0/s1600/blairghoul.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-I7n4lsg_F-w/Va-JTlWrqJI/AAAAAAAADnI/oFqT4_G5fts/s1600/blairchair.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br />http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/bloody-butcher-tells-labour-to-lie-more.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-2597021824310440741Tue, 21 Jul 2015 05:34:00 +00002015-07-21T06:43:01.101+01:00extremismislamismHow far we've come<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Sometimes it's hard to see just how far we've come in the past two or three years. When this blog started in 2007 the country was under the vicious heel of a sort of socialist McCarthyism, rooting out not Communism but any appearance of 'racism' from British society. The whingeing, moronic bien pensants so eager to cry 'wacist!' were supported officially by Blair, and then Brown, and Home Secretaries, the deeply stupid Blunkett amongst them, who instructed plod to track down and prosecute anyone who criticised the 'religion of peace'. Fears about radical Islam were poo-pooed and anyone commenting in the terms of the post below was certain to be condemned as a dangerous right-wing extremist. As well, of course, as a 'wacist'. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">No, I clearly don't imagine Cameron has moved from the 'tosser' to the 'talent' category, but what he's done is to legitimise and make mainstream and respectable the fears we had of radical Islam but about which were constrained from being candid. I repeat, I simply could not have written the post below in 2008 or 2009 without risking a visit from plod. Cameron has moved the boundaries, and for this I am thankful.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">However, I think correspondents who believe that we should refrain from foreign military adventuring and fiddling with one side or the other in the ongoing Islamic civil war in the middle east are absolutely correct. We should sell arms to both sides, keep an eye on British subjects doing trade or business in risky areas and a few RFA vessels in the Med ready to evacuate them but otherwise stand on the sidelines. Any British subjects wanting to join the Caliphate should be encouraged to leave and barred from returning. And at home we should come down like a ton of bricks on any manifestation of the Moslem civil war within our own pale.&nbsp; </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-far-weve-come.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-757944941114469625Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:13:00 +00002015-07-20T16:17:45.970+01:00extremismislamismAll credit to Cameron<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">All credit to Cameron for his speech in Birmingham today; he's not only laying down the line but giving meat to the vast majority of people in Britain of all faiths who subscribe to fundamental human rights and oppose the benighted bigotry of Islamist theocracy. Truly there is no place in our society for the evil of Islamist extremism - and we must all take the Prime Minister's lead in speaking, writing, posting and demonstrating against Islamism whenever we can. </span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Cameron has also in effect given backing to the British people to challenge any part of the British state, be it national or local, that harbours Islamist bigotry. We must be vigorous in challenging local government, the health service, the universities and national authorities and regulators, using FOI if necessary, to ensure they all declare openly their compliance with Cameron's lead in eradicating Islamist extremism from British life.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Since 2007 this blog has opposed multiculturalism is all its forms - I've termed it nothing but apartheid in a frock. There can be no 'separate development' in the UK, no segregated communities, no streets on which one has to act differently. The Islamist ghettoes must be broken up, and inhabitants dispersed to normal, liberal, British communities - rough or genteel, rich or poor - so that Moslems who subscribe fully to western liberal values can flourish as fellow citizens. Cameron also recognised this today - by committing to ending segregation in Moslem-only schools.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Today's speech builds on comments he had made since the Charlie Hebdo atrocity in which he has become increasingly confident in his message. To remind ourselves of his previous words;</span><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> </span></b><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I think we should recognise the values that we have in European countries of believing in democracy and free speech, freedom of expression, the right to offend people and be offended. These are not sources of weakness against this terrorist threat, they are sources of strength. They are what make us great economies, great countries, great societies...</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><i>Paris, following Islamist Charlie Hebdo atrocity</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">'Moslems are Islamist extremists <b>if</b> they believe that:-</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>The West is bad</b> - In contrast to immigrants who want to be part of the Western life, a society at the apex of two thousand years of social and economic development, enemies of the nation hate our culture and seek only to exploit and undermine it</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>Democracy is wrong</b> - Extremists believe that our democratic framework is mistaken and that only the Quran and its interpreters, the imams, should dictate law and policy; Islamist dog Anjem Choudary recently harangued British Moslems against voting in the 2015 elections as 'UnIslamic'</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>Women are inferior to men</b> - This gross stupdity lies at the heart of Islamism. They use it to justify forced marriage, child sex abuse, domestic violence, unequal opportunity in the workplace and to silence the voices of a half of our people. Morons.&nbsp;</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>Homosexuality is evil</b> - Many Christians legitimately believe homosexuality to be disordered and unnatural behaviour, yet tolerate those who choose this life. Islamists go far beyond this; If you think throwing gay men off high buildings is justified, as ISIS are doing, you're an Islamist.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>Islamic doctrine trumps British law</b> - There is no place for the Quran, or Sharia, in British life. We have a set of laws that is both comprehensive and complete in themself and governs fairly the conduct of all our lives. British law is not trumped by any other.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>The Caliphate trumps the British realm</b> - Those who foolishly imagine it is legitimate to support an insurrectionist sect against the British realm are already guilty of Sedition; to act on this belief makes it treasonous.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><b>Violence is justified</b> -&nbsp; To believe that violence is justified in achieving one or more of the false tenets above is the mark of an enemy of my country.</span></li></ul><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><i>Speech in Slovakia, 19th June (comments are mine)</i></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Expect a furious backlash from Islamists and their apologists.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><u>Post script 16.15&nbsp;</u></span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">From <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/rohan-silva-its-now-vital-to-break-down-barriers-between-ethnic-groups-10402055.html">Rohan Silva writing this afternoon in the Standard</a> about breaking up the ghettoes:</span><br /><blockquote><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Over the past 50 years politicians have been unwilling to intervene to ensure that social housing estates contain a broad range of ethnic groups. This laissez-faire approach might have made sense when Britain was relatively homogenous, but with ethnic diversity continuing to rise in our city, it’s high time we thought about a new approach.<br /><br />If you want to see this type of interventionism in action, look at Singapore, which has been promoting ethnic diversity in its social housing for decades. Today around 85 per cent of Singaporeans live in government housing estates, which are regulated by an “Ethnic Integration Policy” that prevents any single ethnic group being over-represented in an estate. This is credited with successfully preventing the emergence of ethnic ghettos and promoting community integration for the good of the city as a whole.<br /><br />As the deputy prime minister of Singapore said recently when explaining why their social housing policy is so important: “If we believe in social inclusion, we have to accept it doesn’t happen automatically because of the invisible hand of the market or the invisible hand of society.”</span> </blockquote>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/all-credit-to-cameron.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-1346681088570692229Sun, 19 Jul 2015 05:08:00 +00002015-07-19T06:08:20.266+01:00BBCfailureBBC: Keep the talent, lose the tossers<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">BBC fat cat Danny Cohen's Baldrick-like plotting was cruelly exposed this week when it emerged that letters of support arriving 'spontaneously' from assorted international luvvies had in fact been individually solicited by Mr Cohen. Perhaps he's had to abandon a second cunning plan - using Eastenders extras to play protesters in a 'spontaneous' demo outside Parliament. Now one of the Dimbledum dynasty is calling for real members of the public to protest - but there's really no need.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">You see, we <i>do</i> love much of the BBC's output; I'd be lost without Radio 3 and 4, the nation would be poorer without the BBC producing the Proms and from time they make first class drama and carry out serious investigations. No-one wants to trim the BBC on the grounds of core quality. The talent is (mostly) fine.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">No, it's all the dags and tossers we want rid of; the ten layers of management, the meaningless jobs, the self-serving bureaucracy, the waste and inefficiency. Once this goes, once we treat the morbidly obese organisation for its own good by restricting its calorie intake, then the BBC's other major fault, a love of big-state, big-government central command and control, will fade away. As I've written before, the organisation is biased towards neither left or right but towards the political class and with a ridiculous metropolitan attachment. You don't cure this by moving chunks of the organisation to Salford; all they do is continue to talk with Whitehall and Westminster from slightly further away.</span>&nbsp;<br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">And Cohen is fundamentally out of touch with the British public if he doesn't realise that his somewhat amateurish and puerile attempts to campaign on the basis of output quality are simply read by people as a campaign in defence of the BBC's bloated and privileged middle-managers.&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/bbc-keep-talent-lose-tossers.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-7121444950885585739Sat, 18 Jul 2015 04:56:00 +00002015-07-18T05:58:01.366+01:00eufailureDemocracy is all that stands between Europe and EU tyrannyThere's a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/16/jurgen-habermas-eu-greece-debt-deal">telling interview in the Guardian</a> this morning with Jürgen Habermas, Frankfurt school academic and leftie icon. At a time when Europe's left are reeling at Greece's treatment at the hands of a new German hegemony, the Grauniad is digging deep in its search for voices in support of Federism. Habermas is clear that the greatest barrier to Federast objectives is democracy - if only, he sighs, right thinking people such as he could ignore the actual people of Europe how much easier things would be.<br /><br /><i><b>Habermas:</b> By focusing on avoidance of open conflict, the EU’s institutions are preventing necessary political initiatives for expanding the currency union into a political union. Only the government leaders assembled in the European Council are in the position to act, but precisely they are the ones who are unable to act in the interest of a joint European community because they think mainly of their national electorate. We are stuck in a political trap.</i><br /><br />Those dratted voters again! How inconvenient that they put their own interests before those of a 'joint European community'<br /><br /><i><b>Habermus</b>: Over the course of the crisis, the European executive has accrued more and more authority. Key decisions are being taken by the council, the commission and ECB – in other words, the very institutions that are either insufficiently legitimated to take such decisions or lack any democratic basis. Streeck and I also share the view that this technocratic hollowing out of democracy is the result of a neoliberal pattern of market-deregulation policies.&nbsp;</i><br /><br />What the old leftie actually means is that an unholy alliance between the the EU's unelected officials and the global corporates, an alliance that strangles both democracy and free open-market competition, has in the process caused sight to be lost of Europe's objective of Welfare State Dependancy. <br /><br /><i><b>Habermus</b>: I do not see how a return to nation states that have to be run like big corporations in a global market can counter the tendency towards de-democratisation and growing social inequality – something that we also see in Great Britain, by the way. Such tendencies can only be countered, if at all, by a change in political direction, brought about by democratic majorities in a more strongly integrated “core Europe”. The currency union must gain the capacity to act at the supra-national level. In view of the chaotic political process triggered by the crisis in Greece we can no longer afford to ignore the limits of the present method of intergovernmental compromise.</i><br /><br />And there you have the new strategic direction - using a veneer of democratic accountability to seize total power in Europe from nation states in a velvet coup. The answer to Greece is more political union and more EU power - the only issue is how the EU's unelected officials can fix the voting. http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/democracy-is-all-that-stands-between.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-2002300229313808520Thu, 16 Jul 2015 04:42:00 +00002015-07-16T05:51:39.980+01:00BrexiteuCameron now needs Treaty change, not 'written agreement'<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Open Europe got it right on the EU's broken promise not to use EFSM to bail-out the Eurozone. The 2010 agreement was a 'solemn, written, binding agreement' made between all 28 European Heads of Government and has just been discarded as as irrelevant by Juncker and the EU Commission; it was a 'political' and not legal agreement, and can therefore be discarded and repudiated at will.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11742773/British-taxpayers-protected-as-Osborne-strikes-deal-on-Greek-loans.html">Telegraph quotes</a> Open Europe's Stephen Booth;</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">“Today’s developments are a boon to those who would like to see the UK leave the EU, and for good reason,” said Mr Booth. “This type of political agreement, so readily jettisoned in a moment of Eurozone panic, is precisely the type of agreement Cameron may, at least in part, be relying on to secure his negotiations and sell them to the British public. This episode will only increase the domestic pressure for the UK to secure treaty changes to underpin EU reforms.” </span></blockquote><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So Cameron's task now becomes either Treaty change, or supporting Brexit. Good. Glad that's clear.&nbsp;</span> http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/cameron-now-needs-treaty-change-not.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-8882260733395124333Wed, 15 Jul 2015 04:48:00 +00002015-07-15T06:15:58.654+01:00greeceWe all know the EU are lying about Greece<br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The IMF is quietly leaking a report that EU leaders are pretending doesn't exist. They have to pretend it doesn't exist; to admit its conclusions would give the lie to all the drama of the last weekend and mean the €86bn about to go to Greece is already lost money.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The EU is like a Wonga salesman persuading some poor single mum that £48 a week benefits is perfectly adequate to repay a £15,000 Wonga loan if only she economises a bit in the kitchen. The reality is that such a Wonga loan, and Greece's debts, are both unpayable. And whilst one has equal amounts of sympathy for Wonga shareholders and German taxpayers in the event of a default, one also has to ask why they lent such absurd sums in the first place.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">The truth is that all this weekend's settlement has achieved is to defer yet again having to deal with Greece's unpayable debt. The IMF knows this, the Russians know this, the US knows this and we know this. Herr Juncker and his chums also know this, but right now it suits them to stick their fingers in their ears and sing 'La la la ..' in the corridors of Brussels.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-20KGKOaKg1I/VaXjKRvqObI/AAAAAAAADm4/T8Uf2Tigp5A/s1600/greekchoice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="220" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-20KGKOaKg1I/VaXjKRvqObI/AAAAAAAADm4/T8Uf2Tigp5A/s400/greekchoice.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QLZuySTT1js/VaXhZmOvjwI/AAAAAAAADmw/CL5Ap4qxrKE/s1600/greekchoice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><u>Postscript</u></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">There is a certain joy in watching the conversion of the British left to the EUphobic cause; as <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/14/left-reject-eu-greece-eurosceptic">Owen Jones writes in the Guardian</a> this morning;</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">"Everything good about the EU is in retreat; everything bad is on the rampage,” writes George Monbiot, explaining his about-turn. “All my life I’ve been pro-Europe,” says Caitlin Moran, “but seeing how Germany is treating Greece, I am finding it increasingly distasteful.” Nick Cohen believes the EU is being portrayed “with some truth, as a cruel, fanatical and stupid institution”. “How can the left support what is being done?” asks Suzanne Moore. “The European ‘Union’. Not in my name.” There are senior Labour figures in Westminster and Holyrood privately moving to an “out” position too.</div>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/we-all-know-eu-are-lying-about-greece.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-3013675664907265794Tue, 14 Jul 2015 06:15:00 +00002015-07-14T07:15:18.197+01:00huntingSNP drop Cameron a gift<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Signals from the quasi-fascist SNP over the party's voting intentions on amendments to the hunting laws were as predictable as polling on serving gefilte fish, lox and bagels in Munich's schools in 1937. The SNP loathe everything English with an intensity that Dr Goebels would have found it hard to achieve, and waving chaps in pink coats on horses at them have pulled them straight into a trap.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Changes in the hunting laws can wait. My old friend Eric the Eagle Owl is not due his P45 from the local hunt just yet. English Votes in Parliament can't. If Cameron needed defeat on one Parliamentary measure by the SNP in order to bolster support for EVEL he cannot have picked better than this one.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">So stay calm and let's take the hit - and make the most of the SNP's untenable interference in English matters. </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/snp-drop-cameron-gift.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-712882088645333473Mon, 13 Jul 2015 05:34:00 +00002015-07-13T06:34:51.131+01:00failuregreeceThe Humiliation of Greece<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">For Germany after the Great War, the terms of the Versailles settlement imposed many deeply wounding terms; the surrender of territory, industrial and transport capacity and her fleet (at Britain's insistence) dealt blow after blow, but the cruellest humiliation of all was perhaps the least deserved - the imposition of German war-guilt, that Germany alone had been solely responsible for four years of slaughter, destruction and bankruptcy. It was far more complex than that, as we know today. All over Europe in 1914 there was a popular willingness for war and even if Germany was the greatest sinner she was not the only sinner. But in 1919, disgusted perhaps at themselves, the victors sought to burden Germany with all their own guilt at their failure to preserve the peace.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">At times over this past weekend, I have been reminded of the unseemly scramble at Versailles by the victors for exoneration. Greece must hand control of her treasury to the IMF, must place €50bn of assets in hock, must pass legislation within 72 hours, must re-sack all the civil servants just re-hired by Syriza. No humiliating burden, it seems, is too great to demand. Like the partners in a doomed marriage, neither of whom are willing to walk-out first, the demands become increasingly unacceptable in order to force a <i>denouement</i>.&nbsp; &nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">And like Versailles, the settlement seeks to re-write history. Greece's entry into the EMU and the Euro was all Greece's fault, the lies and distortions and omissions were wholly Greece's and fooled the rest of Europe; Germany and France and the Commission are all wholly innocent of contriving to force Greece into a monetary union that was always unsustainable. And now Greece must pay for the rest of the Eurozone's insincerity.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Greece is not and will never be another Germany, but there are risks, horrible risks, in seeking to humiliate a nation state so. Have we learned nothing?</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-humiliation-of-greece.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-8034668951774114565Fri, 10 Jul 2015 05:20:00 +00002015-07-10T06:20:09.916+01:00greeceGreek crisis proposals in full<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lKO8iHIm4eo/VZ9PM4COjhI/AAAAAAAADmc/RJe70Mp51dQ/s1600/grexit.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lKO8iHIm4eo/VZ9PM4COjhI/AAAAAAAADmc/RJe70Mp51dQ/s400/grexit.gif" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">I had a feeling the way this would go when watching the footage of the European Parliament session. As Tsipras <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P84tN0z4jqM">listened carefully to Belgian socialist firebrand Guy Verhofstadt</a> you could see the solidarity on his face; the 'Hof' told him to reform more, to open markets, downsize the public sector, end the privileges of the shipowners, the military, the Islands, the Orthodox church. And above all, Verhofstadt urged, he must end political corruption in Greece - corruption in which Syriza was a fully playing party, corruption that saw public positions awarded to party members, and parties continuing to get loans and cash from banks that were bankrupt. I imagine it was the sort of lecture the PM of the Polish Socialist Soviet Republic used to get when visiting Moscow.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">As Farage spoke, on the other hand, urging Tsipras towards Grexit, his Hellenic face set in the granite obstinacy of the far left. You saw Tsipras the socialist demagogue, not Tsipras the saviour of the Greek people. It was clear then that Tsipras' loyalty to the EU monster would outweigh his responsibility to the Greek people - from his face it was clear that he would sell Greece down the river for one of Verhofstadt's toothy grins.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">And so it seems this morning as details emerge of even more austerity in return for no real reduction in Greece's unsustainable debt burden; Hollande's technocrats have found a way of kicking the Greek can down a road for another kilometer or two, keeping the Federasts, the global Corporates and the US political-industrial complex happy. The only people who may not be happy are the poor sods of ordinary Greeks - who always have to pay in the end.</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/greek-crisis-proposals-in-full.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-287832157830656309Thu, 09 Jul 2015 04:33:00 +00002015-07-09T05:33:53.939+01:00eufailureSuzanne Moore joins EUphobes<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Just a minor snippet as we await the Greek outcome; the Guardian's Suzanne Moore has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/08/i-cant-support-a-europe-that-acts-as-thuggy-bailiff-against-greece">opened her eyes</a> to the fundamental wrongness of the Brussels Federasts.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">There is more joy in heaven ....</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/suzanne-moore-joins-euphobes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-9187035387007479216Wed, 08 Jul 2015 05:39:00 +00002015-07-08T06:39:48.028+01:00greeceGrexit beckons<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">It seems what we predicted twice in 2012, several times in 2013 and slightly fewer time in 2014 is finally going to happen; <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/11724924/Europe-is-blowing-itself-apart-over-Greece-and-nobody-can-stop-it.html">AEP is one of the most informed commentators</a> on the crisis, and he can't see an alternative. The EU will not / can not volunteer to take a €177bn hit so will take a €320bn involuntary hit instead.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Europeans, some of the world's cleverest people, really can be incredibly dense. The collective stupidity of Europe's political class continues to astound me. AEP writes; </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"> But that is a detail compared with the damage to the European political project and the Nato alliance if Greece is thrown to wolves against the strenuous objections of France, Italy and the US. It is hard to imagine what would remain of Franco-German condominium. Washington might start to turn its back on Nato in disgust, leaving Germany and the Baltic states to fend for themselves against Vladimir Putin's Russia, a condign punishment for such loss of strategic vision in Greece. Mr Lapavitsas said Europe's own survival as civilisational force in the world is what is really at stake. "Europe has not show much wisdom over the last century. It launched two world wars and had to be saved by the Americans," he said </span></blockquote>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/grexit-beckons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-2378614760162447717Tue, 07 Jul 2015 05:26:00 +00002015-07-07T06:28:13.414+01:00isissyriaCrowdfunding 'Assisted Passage' to ISIS?<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">News that an entire family of twelve with chronic health and welfare demands had left the UK to join ISIS in Syria was greeted with shock and dismay by much of the British press - except by <a href="http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2015/07/if-only-more-people-joined-islamic-state/">Rod Liddle in the Speccie</a>. </span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">It undoubtedly says something about me that my first reaction upon reading the story was: yay – result! That’s saved us all quite a few bob, no? Carry on like this and we might clear the national debt.</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Now old Met plod Bob Quick - infamous for exposing intelligence papers to press photographers - is reported in the Guardian to be calling for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/06/robert-quick-counter-terror-uk-charter-flights-syria-jihadis">free charter flights to ISIS</a> for all British Moslems wishing to leave - requiring only that they hand in their passports and renounce UK citizenship on departure.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Well, I'm pretty sure the government won't do it, for a host of pretty obvious reasons. But what about the rest of us? Would crowdfunding the wet charter of A320s to transport 180 Islamists at a time to the war zone actually be legal? Is there a formal process for renouncing citizenship? Could a registered charity be set up to facilitate the departure of these unhappy Islamists for Syria?</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">This could be a win-win solution; welfare-dependant Moslems get free transport to their Caliphate, we enjoy subsequent lower taxes. Hmmmm...</span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/crowdfunding-assisted-passage-to-isis.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1537213245172078183.post-1284855907289427700Mon, 06 Jul 2015 04:38:00 +00002015-07-06T05:41:16.220+01:00greeceUnelected EU officials Juncker, Schulz left looking like prats<span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Unelected EU chief official JC Juncker and MEP M Schulz, voted 'President of the MEPs' by his colleagues, are left looking like prats this morning over their previous Greek pronouncements.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Juncker claimed a 'No' vote would be a rejection of the EU, a view not shared by the democratically elected President of France, to name one. Juncker now faces having to eat his words as the elected leaders of the EU's nation states work out how to keep Greece in the club.</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Schulz was insisting yesterday that a 'No' vote meant automatic expulsion from the Eurozone; he now faces having to admit talking bollocks as EU nations go all-out to find a way of retaining Greek membership of the currency zone.&nbsp;</span><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">Most of all, these unelected, anti-democratic Brussels bureaucrats have had a full load of democracy fired at them through both barrels - and they hate it. They themselves have no electoral or popular mandate, and they resent any elected politician that does. Greece's experiment in direct democracy was a denial of everything the EU Federation stands for.&nbsp;</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: &quot;Trebuchet MS&quot;,sans-serif;">And as much as these unelected Euro officials may spitefully wish misery and poverty on the people of Greece, I suspect that Europe's democratically elected leaders may have a different view. Let's see what the next 48 hours brings.&nbsp; </span>http://raedwald.blogspot.com/2015/07/unelected-eu-officials-juncker-schulz.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Raedwald)12